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Casey Seiler: The land of dual toilets

Casey Seiler| on February 8, 2014

A lot of people will say it's cheap and easy to make fun of the Sochi Olympics, an atrociously planned and executed project undertaken by a one-party, kleptocratic government led by the sort of narcissistic strongman that the international community had hoped Russia had left behind at the dawn of perestroika.

Those people are dead wrong: It took me several hours to put together this quiz making fun of the Sochi games, and while I would encourage this newspaper to pay me more money, my labor doesn't come cheap.

1. Can you spot the actual quote from Dmitry Kozak, the Russian deputy prime minister who groused to reporters that Westerners are trying to make Sochi's lodgings look worse than they are?

A. "Our agents have searched the rooms of many guests, and they appear very comfortable to us."

B. "We have intercepted cell phone conversations in which you people beg your editors to bring you home; we know you scoff at our low-thread-count bedsheets."

C. "We have surveillance video from the hotels that shows people turn on the shower, direct the nozzle at the wall and then leave the room for the whole day."